16There are few quantitative studies on deep-sea biodiversity from the Indian Ocean, 17 particularly on the mid-ocean ridges (MOR). We investigated the benthic megafaunal 18 community structure of the Indian Ocean MOR at the Carlsberg Ridge (CR) using
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